strengths

My favourite reality TV star is the complete opposite of what successful performers are meant to look like – she is neither young nor glamorous and doesn’t wears skimpy outfits. In fact, when she auditioned on national TV in front of ten million viewers, she stood on stage with hands on hips, portly, frumpily dressed, sporting a mat of grey frizzy hair. At the time, she was forty-seven years old, unmarried, was an unemployed charity worker, and lived alone with her cat in a small village in Scotland. And…